ABSTRACT
Nationhood is a sentiment that moulds together the public and private lives of a society into a national identity. Citizenship, with its implied social contract of loyalty, is aspects of the kinship of nationhood. A territorial "place" is essential for the sentiment of nationhood, the significance of which is often maintained and magnified at a distance by expatriates. Separatist multiculturalism raises the issue of whether a disparate society can develop a genuine sense of nationhood and kinship. Kinship is the feeling of belonging to, and sharing a communal and exclusive identity, which human beings consciously and explicitly use to define their social relationships. Social anthropologists believe that kinship and the formation of closed and selective societies is a part of a predictable and permanent human need for an identity. Kinship and camaraderie are strongest wherever the physical and emotional relationships and dependence such as shared risks are closest.
